Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, Wynn flew to Beirut to fill in for Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who was in Damascus gauging the reception accorded the Nixon entourage. After the Syrian capital, only visits to Israel and Jordan lay ahead before Dean Fischer and hundreds of other weary whistle-stoppers could return to Washington for a good rest...
SYRIA. Twenty minutes' flight time from Damascus airport, Colonel Ralph Albertazzie, the pilot of Nixon's Spirit of 76, spotted four Soviet-built Syrian MlGs coming up fast. He immediately took evasive action, putting the giant jet through a series of sharp turns and steep banks while radioing the Damascus control tower for help. Assured that the fighters were on a friendly- though unannounced- escort mission, Colonel Albertazzie landed the President in Syria for his meetings with the leaders of a nation that has been bitterly anti-American as well as anti-Israeli...
Almost everywhere in the Middle East there was euphoria and rejoicing as the cease-fire held and negotiations on details proceeded. On the Golan Heights, United Nations troops from Canada, Poland, Austria and Peru moved in to begin keeping peace as Syrian and Israeli forces started pulling back from the cease-fire line. Syrians cheered as Israeli units prepared to pull out of Quneitra, only to discover the retreating troops were leveling the remaining buildings hi the bombed-out city to hamper reoccupation. The speedy pace of the withdrawal had been set in Geneva, where Syrian and Israeli officers completed...
...Syrian leader must take account of the country's religious division. Its population of 6.9 million is predominantly Sunni Moslem, although there are 1.5 million Christians, 500,000 Shia Moslems, mostly Alawites and Druzes. Assad is a member of the Alawites, an impoverished minority that has risen to power because of its strong representation in the military. But the Alawites who dominate the military high command could not rule without Sunni support. General Tlas, for example, is a Sunni and acknowledged to be the second most powerful man in Syria...
...Kissinger arrives in Washington, Israeli and Syrian representatives sign the accords in Geneva...